Motivational Quotes

Family

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

- Pere, Legouve

Best Quotes about Family

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Groening, Matt

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds; they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

All people are your relatives, therefore expect only trouble from them.

Proverb, Chinese

What a man sows, that shall he and his relations reap.

Graves, Clarissa

Having a baby's sweet face so close to your own, for so long a time as it takes to nurse'em, is a great tonic for a sad soul.

Erica Eisdorfer

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.

Lardner, Ring

Family isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you care about.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmother. A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt and Helpists know it. They have jumped into the void left by the disappearance of morbid old ladies from the bosom of the American family.

King, Florence

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

Baker, Anita

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I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.

Anna Quindlen

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Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described --and will be, after our deaths --by each of the family members who believe they know us.

Steinem, Gloria

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Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head.

Proverb, Chinese

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Parents and children seldom act in concert: each child endeavors to appropriate the esteem or fondness of the parents, and the parents, with yet less temptation, betray each other to their children.

Johnson, Samuel

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Our relatives are ours by chance, but we can choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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Govern a family as you would cook a small fish -- very gently.

Proverb, Chinese

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The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one!

Ann Radcliffe

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A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Pere, Legouve

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People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.

Ziglar, Zig

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Where can a person be better than in the bosom of their family.

Gretry, Marmontel

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When I do something in my family because I really enjoy it, then my duty has become my pleasure. And it is a pleasure for all the people around me.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.

Moody, Dwight L.

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Family... the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

Strindberg, J. August

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I would rather start a family than finish one.

Marquis, Don

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A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

Sontag, Susan

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They say that blood is thicker than water. Maybe that's why we battle our own with more energy and gusto than we would ever expend on strangers.

David Assael

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I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

Yeats, William Butler

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Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

John Paul II

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Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.

Schulz, Charles M.

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Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy.

Dickens, Charles

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Women's liberationists spread the word that the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.

Tyell, R. Emmett

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My family begins with me, your family ends with you.

Iphicrates

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The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Picabia, Francis

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Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.

Howard, Jane

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All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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None but a mule denies his family.

Proverb, Arabian

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Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that there's always somebody there, somebody that's family.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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Of all my wife's relations I like myself the best.

Cook, Joseph

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Losing a baby is not a thing that you could ever get used to.

Erica Eisdorfer

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Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.

Mead, Margaret

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Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Leo Tolstoy

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Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome; the good, the true, the tender- these form the wealth of home.

Hale, Sarah J.

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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous.